LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The way has been cleared for the removal of two badly damaged houses along Cattail Brook, which were undermined during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.

The course of the brook shifted during the flood and the surging waters swept a large portion of the foundation and earth from beneath the two houses.

At a meeting at the government center on December 11, Legislator Kitty Vetter asked her colleagues to allow the Town of Rockland, which is where the hamlet of Livingston Manor is located, to dispose of construction debris of the two houses free of charge at the county transfer station.

Ed McAndrew, commissioner of the division of public works, said the town had not used 34 tons the county granted to the town as part of its yearly free clean-up program, and the weight of the two houses was estimated to be about 15 tons, so the legislators agreed that the transfer station would accept the debris without charge.